Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.